Performance Optimisation Contracts in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 158 191
Rank change year-on-year +46 +33 -47
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 16 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.74% 0.29% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.31% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £368 £485 -
25th Percentile £525 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £638 £650 -
90th Percentile £705 £665 -
Central London median daily rate £581 £600 -
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,961 3,192 3,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.49% 91.62% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 2,150 2,919
10th Percentile £354 £356 £381
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 45
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.65 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -11.39% +108.03%
75th Percentile £40.00 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -12.50% +100.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Twilio
5 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) npm
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
5 1 (6.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) CTI
1 3 (18.75%) VoIP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Looker
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Ant
1 1 (6.25%) Babel
1 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) JUnit
1 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
1 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Quantitative Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) NumPy
2 3 (18.75%) Pandas
2 3 (18.75%) SciPy
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) CSS3
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Semantic UI
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Derivative
2 3 (18.75%) IVR
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Quantitative Trading
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Rust
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Nagios
1 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Genesys
3 2 (12.50%) Avaya
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe
4 1 (6.25%) Alteryx
4 1 (6.25%) Brandwatch
4 1 (6.25%) VMware